Anoa 131 



additional particulars: — "This interesting little bovine is not uncommon 

 in the huge virgin forests that cover nearly the entire island of Mindoro. 

 It is, however, difficult to hunt the animal successfully unless a number of 

 beaters, accompanied by good dogs, are employed. I foolishly employed a 

 professional native hunter tor several days ; but, although we found a 

 number of fresh tracks, we never saw a sign of a tamarau. The tamarau, 

 as the natives name this animal, is also found high up on the mountains. 

 I have seen regular tunnelled pathways through the thick bamboo under- 

 growth which covers the mountain-sides above 6000 feet. But the animal 

 is so small that one has to bend double or go on one's hands and knees, 

 making it quite impossible to follow up the tracks. On moonlight nights 

 the tamarau might be heard bellowing on the mountain-side, generally far 

 away and above my camp. The aboriginals of Mindoro told me that they 

 never attack the tamarau, being too much afraid of it ; the only reduction 

 of its numbers is caused by a few sporting Spaniards and one or two 

 professional Indian hunters." 



6. The Anoa, or Celebes Buffalo — Bos depressicornis 



Antilope [Anoa) depresskorms^ H. Smith, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom., 

 vol. iv. p. 293, V. p. 1^^^ (1827). 



Bos [Anoa) depressicornis. Gray, Spied. Zool. p. 12 (1828). 



Antilope depressicornis, Quoy and Gaimard, Ann. Sci. Nat. vol. xvii. 

 p. 623 (1829), Voyage de F Astrolabe — Zool. vol. i. p. 136 (1830). 



Anoa depressicornis, Swainson, Classif. Quadrupeds, p. 286 (1835) ; Gray, 

 List. Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 153 (1843), ^^^^- Vngulata Brit. Mus. p. 29 

 (1852), Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 13 (1872); Sundevall, K. Svenska 

 Vet. Ak. Hand I. for 1844, p. 148 (1846) ; Heller, Der Urbuffel, etc., p. 5 

 (1889); Ward, Records of Big Game, p. 281 (1896). 



Antilope (Taurotragus) depressicornis, Wagner, in Schreber's Saugethiere, 

 vol. iv. p. 539 (1844). 



